Wow, nice gain for the democrats, a State House seat with less voters than a few Chi City blocks. Congratulations, a-holes.
If this town truly NEVER sent a rat to the State House that’s something, I guess. But NH house has had a lot of turnover in recent elections.
They had to have sent a Democrat at some point, even if before the Civil War. It was a Dem state before the formation of the GOP (NH never formally elected either a Whig Governor or Senator. Some pre-Whig anti-Jacksonian, and two anti-slavery Independents, a Liberty Party member and a Free-Soiler in the Senate, but no Whigs).
Democrat Christine Pellegrino defeated Conservative Tom Gargiulo on Tuesday in the 9th Assembly District special election as the progressive and union-backed candidate pulled off an upset victory for the heavily Republican seat.